Wayward Pines renewed for series 2

M. Night Shyamalan’s adaptation of Blake Crouch’s Wayward Pines series of novels is getting a second season next summer on Fox – but with a new showrunner.

Believe creator Mark Friedman will replace Chad Hodge, who is working on a different Crouch-based series at TNT.

“Wayward Pines was a huge hit for us this past summer,” Fox Entertainment president David Madden explained. “We were absolutely blown away by the mysterious and surprising world that Night and his team created, and the twisting-and-turning storytelling that drew viewers in from day one. The second season will pick up in the wake of Season One, when a new arrival in Wayward Pines finds himself in the middle of a serious rebellion, as the residents battle over how to preserve the endangered human race.